Daniel 2:11-13

2:11 What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods – but they don’t live among mortals!” ¹ 

2:12 Because of this the king got furiously angry ²  and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. 2:13 So a decree went out, and the wise men were about ³  to be executed. They also sought ⁴  Daniel and his friends so that they could be executed.

[2:11]  ¹ tn Aram “whose dwelling is not with flesh.”

[2:12]  ² tn Aram “was angry and very furious.” The expression is a hendiadys (two words or phrases expressing a single idea).

[2:13]  ³ tn The Aramaic participle is used here to express the imminent future.

[2:13]  ⁴ tn The impersonal active plural (“they sought”) of the Aramaic verb could also be translated as an English passive: “Daniel and his friends were sought” (cf. NAB).